Suicidal Iran

[j2k4]

The enigma to me is that after you constantly repudiate the UN as having any relevancy you might suggest it focuses on anything

'Twould be a wonder if, instead of serving as a ready forum for the full menu of anti-Semitic rhetoric, the U.N. jumped in immediately with both feet to condemn such commentary, and go on record as not supporting such pish.

To build credibility and gain relevance, you see.

[lynx]

The enigma to me is that after you constantly repudiate the UN as having any relevancy you might suggest it focuses on anything

'Twould be a wonder if, instead of serving as a ready forum for the full menu of anti-Semitic rhetoric, the U.N. jumped in immediately with both feet to condemn such commentary, and go on record as not supporting such pish.

To build credibility and gain relevance, you see.

Or perhaps the UN saw it for what it was, an exercise in internal politics.

[clocker]

'Twould be a wonder if, instead of serving as a ready forum for the full menu of anti-Semitic rhetoric, the U.N. jumped in immediately with both feet to condemn such commentary, and go on record as not supporting such pish.

To build credibility and gain relevance, you see.

And presumably these newly re-spined delegates will march right back up to the podium and decry Bush's insistence on supporting legislation that would exempt the CIA from the Geneva Conventions and allow torture of prisoners interrogated in other countries.

Then you could go back to questioning the U.N.'s moral qualifications to judge us.


Biggles...
Your last post was beautifully written.
You should pursue a literary career.

Starving to death in a Parisian garrett is tremendously romantic.

[j2k4]

'Twould be a wonder if, instead of serving as a ready forum for the full menu of anti-Semitic rhetoric, the U.N. jumped in immediately with both feet to condemn such commentary, and go on record as not supporting such pish.

To build credibility and gain relevance, you see.

And presumably these newly re-spined delegates will march right back up to the podium and decry Bush's insistence on supporting legislation that would exempt the CIA from the Geneva Conventions and allow torture of prisoners interrogated in other countries.

Then you could go back to questioning the U.N.'s moral qualifications to judge us.

It is precisely because the detainees in question are without a country that they are subject to whatever you choose to term "Gitmo" treatment.

Why should we allow their preferred status as an "at large" terrorist entity work in their favor?

Let a country claim them, and let's go from there.

The U.N.'s only method of sanction is their blessed resolution; how does one fashion a resolution aimed at, oh.....Al Qaeda, for instance?

So you could infer, I suppose, that we twist the "arm" that is offered for twisting.

That no country claims them is not our problem, it is theirs, and that is as it should be.